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Queen Victoria wasn't the only royal to make train plumbing history. Under the reign of George V, the Royal Train was ...
When Queen Victoria first traveled by train in 1842 she marveled at its speed and comfort, describing the journey in her ...
Queen Victoria’s men: (from left) Lord Melbourne, Prince Albert, John Brown and Abdul Karim. Source: ITV/SBS/Miramax/Focus Films Despite the buttoned-up era that bears her name, it turns out ...
How Queen Victoria spared the life of the 'poor wretch' who repeatedly tried to murder her John Francis was a "desperate" man who attempted to take the life of Queen Victoria twice, just days apart.
The King has sounded the whistle on the royal train, accepting it's too expensive to maintain and ending a tradition that ...
The original story was that the Swiss authorities had "received information "--like the typical English policeman--of a Fenian conspiracy against the life of Queen VICTORIA, View Full Article in ...
Queen Victoria — who was Monarch for 64 years — faced not one, but seven assassination attempts on her life after taking to the throne in 1837.
The 2017 film 'Victoria and Abdul' highlights the real-life relationship between Queen Victoria and her Indian Muslim servant ...
A teenager looking for infamy The first attempt on Queen Victoria's life came on June 10, 1840, when she was aged 21, just three years into her reign.
Victoria’s approach to childbirth gave women new options, but in her own life, loss proved inescapable. When Prince Albert died in 1861, the queen’s mourning set a new standard for grief in ...
A set of 19th-century drawings by a teenage Queen Victoria will be put up for auction in London next week. ... has more than 4,000 works by Queen Victoria, spanning 64 years of her life.